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First published online May 26, 2006
Journal of Experimental Biology 209, 2276-2292 (2006)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2006
doi: 10.1242/jeb.02088

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Review Article: Phenotypic Plasticity in Skeletal Muscle

The satellite cell as a companion in skeletal muscle plasticity: currency, conveyance, clue, connector and colander

Judy E. Anderson

Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 0W3, Canada

Author for correspondence (e-mail: janders{at}ms.umanitoba.ca)

Accepted 11 January 2006

Summary

Satellite cells are companions to voluntary muscle fibres, and are named for their intimate positional or `satellite' relationship, as if revolving around fibres, like a satellite moon around the earth. Studies on the nature of at least some satellite cells, including their capabilities for self-renewal and for giving rise to multiple lineages in a stem cell-like function, are exploring the molecular basis of phenotypes described by markers of specialized function and gene expression in normal development, neuromuscular disease and aging. In adult skeletal muscle, the self-renewing capacity of satellite cells contributes to muscle growth, adaptation and regeneration. Muscle remodeling, such as demonstrated by changes in myofibre cross-sectional area and length, nerve and tendon junctions, and fibre-type distribution, occur in the absence of injury and provide broad functional and structural diversity among skeletal muscles. Those contributions to plasticity involve the satellite cell in at least five distinct roles, here described using metaphors for behaviour or the investigator's perspective. Satellite cells are the `currency' of muscle; have a `conveyance' role in adaptation by domains of cytoplasm along a myofibre; serve researchers, through a marker role, as `clues' to various activities of muscle; are `connectors' that physically, and through signalling and cell-fibre communications, bridge myofibres to the intra- and extra-muscular environment; and are equipped as metabolic and genetic filters or `colanders' that can rectify or modulate particular signals. While all these roles are still under exploration, each contributes to the plasticity of skeletal muscle and thence to the overall biology and function of an organism. The use of metaphor for describing these roles helps to clarify and scrutinize the definitions that form the basis of our understanding of satellite cell biology: the metaphors provide the construct for various approaches to detect or test the nature of satellite cell functions in skeletal muscle plasticity.

Key words: muscle regeneration, activation, myogenesis, fibre, nitric oxide, gene expression, heterogeneity, transplantation

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